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Kenyan insurtech startup Pula raises $6M Series A to derisk smallholder farmers across Africa

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Pula , a Kenyan insurtech startup that specialises in digital and agricultural insurance to derisk millions of smallholder farmers across Africa, has closed a Series A investment of $6 million. They include Senegal, Ghana, Mali, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Madagascar, Tanzania, Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda, Zambia, Malawi and Mozambique.

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8 startups that leveraged products for social good, and where they’re headed in 2014

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According to Paull Young, director of digital at charity:water, the organization ensures that 100 percent of money raised goes directly to fund water efforts, primarily in Africa and southeast Asia. Charity:water’s latest campaign for 2014 is focused around donating to the people of Malawi, Africa.

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Flutterwave and PayPal collaborate to allow African merchants to accept and make payments

TechCrunch

So despite having the largest payment infrastructure in Africa, we want to have arguably all the important payments systems in the world on our platform.” They include Algeria, Botswana, Egypt, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mauritius, Morocco, Mozambique, Senegal, Seychelles and South Africa.

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Three ways to quickly analyze fundraising performance with Tableau

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Eric Dayton, Director of Data at buildOn , faced many unknowns when he came home from Malawi on March 3rd, a week before the COVID shutdown. Fortunately, buildOn’s ongoing investment in their digital transformation helped the organization shift gears smoothly and chart a course of action during the early days of the pandemic. .

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mPharma, a telehealth pioneer out of Ghana, gets physical with 100 virtual centers across Africa

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He said that mPharma already provides about 10,000 physician consultations to patients at the startup’s network of pharmacies, and that the new system will enable them to do it electronically too, reaching more people. The tech startup plans to use its network of pharmacies to build what they describe as a digital primary care service.

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mPharma raises $35million in round participated by Tinder co-founder’s JAM fund, Bharti executive

TechCrunch

Patients in Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya, Zambia, Malawi, Rwanda and Ethiopia, where mPharma has a presence, now have access to the virtual services. We are transforming community pharmacies into the foundation of a modern health system in Africa. We will have a Mutti pharmacy in every community on the continent.

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Health tech startup mPharma acquires Vine Pharmacy, enters Uganda

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It plans to use its network of pharmacies to build what it describes as a digital primary care service that will offer all-in-one diagnostics services. Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya, Zambia, Malawi and Rwanda are the other markets the tech startup has operations in. The firm also partnered with Mt.

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